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...Saipan, nature and the bulldozer have all but covered the four-year-old litter of battle. But last week, belching fire like one of his own flamethrowers, the Marines' General Holland M. Smith scorched open an old, still angry scar. Writing with cantankerous zest in the Saturday Evening Post, "Howlin' Mad" revived his case against the Army's Major General Ralph Smith and his 27th Division, a New York National Guard outfit transferred to Marine command for the Saipan invasion...
Marines' Version. The essence of Howlin' Mad's case was simple: the 27th would not fight, and Ralph Smith would not make them fight (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944). Seven days after the Saipan landing he had ordered the 27th to move up between the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions for the big attack northward along the spine of the island...
...Whitewash, pure and simple," snorted Howlin' Mad. "The so-called board . . . had no more judicial standing than an Army kangaroo court. This board had no access to Saipan records of the Navy and Marine Corps, and sought none...
TIME'S Robert Sherrod, veteran of New Guinea, Attu, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, remembers that these stories had as much to do with TIME'S popularity among overseas servicemen as the action reports. Says Sherrod...
...under our belts--are still facing the same issue. Only now it is a question of accepting our national responsibility in making sure that these two wars shall not have been fought in vain. My best friend on the CRIMSON was Fuzzy Blaine. One of his sons died on Saipan. If Fuzzy and I were competing today as editorial "heelers," I am sure that we should be vying with each other in trying to make people see that the Marshall Plan must be adopted--without stint or strings--because it's no use building a bridge half-way across...